Clive Hamilton Part 1 | Part 2 Professor Clive Hamilton explores the balances being struck between environmental protection and economic growth in the context of the current advice from climate scientists. He also argues that our preoccupation with economic growth is inconsistent with protecting the Earth from severe damage due to global …
7 July 2003 © People and Place William Lines is author of Open Air (New Holland, 2001). This is extracted from his article, co-written, with Natalie Sloan, from the present issue of People and Place. THE Australian Greens no longer speak for conservation in Australia. Why? Because of their increasingly left-wing pose and their …
SPA Population Policy(75Kb) – SPA National Executive, Nov 2005 The policy outlines SPA’s position on how Australia can achieve and ecologically sustainable population. It also provides a brief background into the current impact of Australia’s existing population. Other Population Policies ACF Population Policy (scroll to the bottom of the page) – Australian Conservation Foundation Greens …
It was pleasing that The Canberra Times put the subject of world population growth (“2050 population 9 billion: UN”, March 15) on its front page. The story reported that the expected 2.5 billion increase from now until 2050 will be equivalent to the world’s entire population in 1950, but missed the United Nations’ qualification that …
It seems churlish to criticise the US President’s new $1.2bn five-year malaria initiative (Bush renews efforts to cut malaria deaths, GW, Jan 5-11), nor the earlier $15bn President’s emergency plan for Aids relief (PEPFAR). Yet so much money given in aid by the US Government has had strings attached that one has to ask: what …
Strings tied to US aid? (Guardian Weekly, 20070112) Read More »
It was pleasing that The Canberra Times put the subject of world population growth (“2050 population 9 billion: UN”, March 15) on its front page. The story reported that the expected 2.5 billion increase from now until 2050 will be equivalent to the world’s entire population in 1950, but missed the United Nations’ qualification that …
